187th
New Crusader
187 ? New Crusader #1
Antiope was dragged into a heap of the dead, a bead, a trap, a snare – call it what you will – and disappeared.
“Eww, s, save me-!”
Jooooook, joooook.
In the gap, my palm would occasionally slip out and scratch the floor with my fingernails.
Soon it was caught by the other palms and eventually disappeared into the colony, not even revealing its fingernails.
Antiope has completely disappeared among the dead.
Now, not a single strand of hair or fingernails can be seen on her. All that remains is a spear stuck in the floor, looking menacing.
I was quite confused by this situation. Why did the dead people standing in line attack Antiope? Weren’t they trembling and bowing their heads in front of Antiope?
What I was aiming for was to use the bone jar that Paranoi had brought to create a goblin or something to deal with Antiope.
I was able to survive by receiving help I never expected.
Could it be that the kindness I showed to the dead inspired courage in their hearts?
So I thought about what kindness I had done them, and nothing came to mind except making them crawl between my legs.
What the hell is Sval?
Wiggle. Wiggle.
I frowned as I looked at the gigantic rock with human figures haphazardly arranged in grotesque shapes. So what happened to Antiope, who was eventually dragged inside?
Are you dead?
Although she was an enemy of mine, isn’t she Hippolyte’s sister? I’m worried that if she dies like this, I might become estranged from Hippolyte.
If she were to come out and target Luna to get revenge on her sister, then there would really be no answer.
As I was feeling both relieved and worried, Paranoy, who had fallen to the floor while hugging the bone jar, shouted in amazement.
“Isn’t that the Death Jail, one of Hassan’s 24 powerful suppression techniques! To use such a fearsome technique, you are truly amazing…!”
Then he approaches the sphere of the dead, which he calls the prison of death, and fearlessly taps its outer surface with the palm of his hand.
“I’ve never seen such great perfection…! That bad Temple Knight guy, he looks great…! Hehe, he’s a total idiot…! How is it, Hassan-sama’s power-!”
The Paranoy guy seemed to think that I had created this round sphere, this prison of death.
Did I really make this?
Is my necromancy talent so good that I can even command the dead who wander the world?
Listening to Paranoy, it really seems that way.
But, Subal, it seems a bit ridiculous and absurd that I am being deceived by the words of that delusional paranoia.
I looked around, trying to sort out the situation with my hazy consciousness.
Anyway, I survived, Antiope was subdued, and Luna is lying on the floor over there.
Swish.
“Paranoyah, please wake me up.”
“I’m better at supporting others than anyone else…!!”
I got up with support from Paranoi and slowly approached Luna, who was writhing on the floor.
“Hassan! What’s going on? What’s happening!”
Luna, whose body was bound and sealed with iron chains, seemed to be struggling to turn her face towards me.
It seemed like he didn’t see this situation because his body kept going to strange places.
“Luna, stay still. I’ll let you go.”
It was said that the tattoos engraved on the body by Antiope’s power were like scars that could never be erased once they were drawn on the body.
But I had once erased the drawings on that tattooed woman’s body with the palm of my hand.
So I slowly raised my palm and touched Luna’s belly.
“Heh, heh heh heh, ticklish, ticklish-!”
Swish, swish.
When I stroked Luna’s soft, squishy belly with my palm to unravel the drawings on her body, Luna squirmed as if she was being tickled.
Thud, thud, ka-ching-!
Soon, the chain that had been pulled tight snaps, and Luna starts waving her arms and legs around as if she can’t hold back her laughter.
“Puhhh, heh, ticklish! Ticklish-! Hassan, now is not the time, now is not the time! Antiope is after us, puhhh-!”
Luna soon starts giggling, holding her stomach.
“Oh? Huh? What is it? My body is moving!”
Luna jumped up from the floor and looked down at her body as if she found this situation strange.
Because of the ink that was washed away on my palm, Luna’s body is now left with not even a small tattoo, except for dust.
I’m so glad that Luna stopped being a tattooed woman. And I can’t tell you how lucky I am that none of us got hurt too badly.
Honestly, it was a fight where it wouldn’t have been strange if someone died.
“What about Antiope? What is that strange bunch of dead people?”
Luna came to her senses and then shook off the dust from her body and looked around.
In his eyes he could see the scattered dead, the broken garden, and the strange death prison or something that held Antiope captive.
For a moment, I suddenly felt worried that Luna had discovered the taboo of necromancy. What kind of excuse should I make? Should I say that it was Paranoy who did it instead of me?
While I was imagining that, Luna said.
“The dead helped us?
“Oh, yeah, I guess so.”
“I guess we are repaying the favor by sending the dead safely across the river! After all, if you do good deeds, you will be rewarded.”
From what I heard from Luna, it seemed like she recognized that this wasn’t necromancy or anything like that, but that the dead were simply helping us in our fight.
Listening to Luna, it seems like that’s true too.
Paranoy hesitated as if he had something to say, but when I poked his side, he reluctantly shut his mouth.
“So, Antiope isn’t dead?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know what happened after I went in there.”
“Hmm-.”
Luna, who had been silent for a long time, finally took off the horned helmet she was wearing on her head. Then she opened her already round eyes even wider and spoke.
“Still, still alive!”
Now that I think about it, it was said that when the veil was removed, Luna could no longer see these dead people. It seemed that Luna could see Antiope trapped inside.
“Antiope has turned white! It seems like all the life in the world has been sucked out! If this continues, won’t she die?”
Luna was trembling as if she had suddenly been frightened. Even though she had attacked us, did she still feel aversion to killing people? Just as I was about to be slightly moved by Luna’s kind heart.
“If you kill the Templar Knights, you will be severely punished! Hurry up and save them!”
As it turned out, Luna seemed to be concerned about Antiope’s life in a very functional and realistic sense.
After all, that Antiope guy is a super elite, one of only ten in the kingdom.
If we take the life of a guy like that, we will become truly irreparable criminals, and as that guy said, we will be no different from a cult.
But I had no idea what to do with these dead people who had gathered together so tightly to form a solid rock. So I spoke to them while tapping their bodies a little.
“You all stop.”
Swish.
Then, as if the things that had been moving until just now were a lie, the dead began to release each other’s bodies. Swish, swish.
Antiope soon appears from deep within.
“Huh, huh… .”
The boy just curled up like a fetus in his stomach, hugging his knees, shivering and making terrified sounds.
Whether it was because he had suffered a significant mental shock or not, the hair on his head that had been shining like the night sky had all turned white.
Honestly, if I had been captured and dragged away by ghosts, I think I would have lost consciousness from fear. I might have even had a heart attack.
“Ugh, save me… Sister, everyone, where are you? Don’t leave me. I’m scared…”
Looking at Antiope muttering something, the hostility that had been building up until just now disappeared somewhere and I felt a little pity.
“The condition… doesn’t look very good.”
So, at that moment, I was holding out my palm to the crouching guy, thinking that I could feel his pulse.
“Eww, eeww! Sa, save me! Save me…!”
The guy was shaking so much that he was drenching himself between his legs with a wet liquid. I never thought he’d be that scared.
Deering-.
『Name: Antiope Grimkeeper lv. ?? ??
Status: Curse of the Two-Headed Dog》Irregular Menstruation》Great Terror》
When I grabbed the guy’s wrist and felt his pulse, I saw that a new item called “Great Fear” had been added. That letter was probably the cause of the person shaking as if he was broken and even incontinent.
“Hassan, what did you find out?”
Then Luna looked at me and asked me a question.
“You must have been really scared.”
Luna clicks her tongue at my simple assessment.
“That’s because it makes the dead angry. That’s why the spirits and the living need to respect each other and coexist.”
“Luna-sama is absolutely right…! The Knights of Jupiter see anything related to the underworld as bad, and that’s why they’re in such a mess…!”
Luna and Paranoy each gave their own impressions. But I didn’t know what to do from now on.
It’s a good thing Antiope is alive, but on the other hand, if this guy opens his mouth and tells someone, “That bastard Hassan, it turns out he’s a heretic!”, things will be a real pain.
Is there any better way?
While I was thinking like that, I looked at the drawings on Antiope’s body. Maybe a good idea would come to mind.
* * *
“Hassan, are you sure you’re okay?”
Luna looked at me with anxious eyes. However, I ignored Luna’s question and wiped away all the drawings on Antiope’s body with my palm.
“Hhhh, ahhh-!”
Malkang. Malkang.
“Hassan, why, why do you keep touching my chest! There, there, I already erased it all!”
“No, it seemed a little less erased. I guess it was just my imagination. I guess I was confused because my skin was dark.”
“lie!”
Soon, it was Luna who hit my head with her fist.
“That’s it!”
I’ve been feeling this lately, but Luna is quite perceptive. Maybe it’s because her level has gotten higher, but her touch is also sharp and it hurts quite a bit.
Antiope’s breasts were slightly smaller than Hippolyte’s. Even though they were sisters, there was a difference.
Anyway, all the tattoos on Antiope’s body were erased. Thanks to that, my hands are covered in black ink.
“The drawings on my body… , , euuuuu!”
Antiope screamed as if she was losing her mind as the karma or something she had worked hard to accumulate for five years was gone. It felt as if she was no longer able to maintain her reason and had collapsed.
Of course, from her perspective, it would be a huge shock, enough to make her lose consciousness.
I also don’t think I would be able to say anything if I accidentally deleted all the contents of my D drive that I’ve worked hard to save for 5 years.
Come to think of it, what happened to my D drive? If anyone saw it, it would be fucked. Seriously, I don’t know.
Deering-.
『Name: Antiope Grim Keeper lv. ?? 27
Status: Curse of the Two-Headed Dog》Irregular Menstruation》Great Terror》
Perhaps because the tattoo was removed, Antiope’s level also dropped to a level where I could rub it.
But I felt like that wasn’t enough, so I used the ink on my hands to tie a choke-like band around Antiope’s neck.
“These are chains, Antiope. If you tell anyone what happened between us, these chains will wring your neck.”
“Uh, uh, uhh… .”
But Antiope seemed unable to come to her senses. This was probably due to the extreme fear she had felt when she was taken away by the demons.
Or maybe he was just shocked to see all the tattoos on his body erased.
I told her that.
“Antiope, swear on the River Styx that you will tell no one what happened between us.”
“Ugh, s, I don’t like it, no, I don’t want to beg for my life to a dirty and ugly cultist…! Rather, just kill me! Hehe, if you kill me, my comrades will come after you!”
oh.
I thought she had lost her mind and was scared to death just now, but it seems she still had some self-respect left in her mind.
But I felt like she didn’t seem to understand the situation right now, so I thought I needed to scare her a little.
“This is not a negotiation, this is an order. If you disobey our orders, we will throw you back into that death prison. This time, you will not be released, so think carefully.”
“I, I hate that! I hate the prison of death, prison-!”
It must have been quite traumatic for him to be surrounded by the dead. He seemed to have acted quite strong just now, but now he’s curled up again and trembling.
“I hate prison… I hate being a sacrifice… .”
A sacrifice? I wondered what kind of sacrifice it was. Then I remembered that Antiope had almost been sacrificed as a human sacrifice to Pluto’s cultists when she was young.
Could it be that the experience was so intense that it caused flashbacks of past trauma?
“I won’t sacrifice you if you swear on the River Styx that you will never tell anyone what happened between us until the day you die.”
“Ugh, well, but I can’t kneel before a cultist….”
“Hasan, that won’t do! Let’s just sacrifice you! We are such horrible cultists, if you won’t keep your promise, we have no choice but to sacrifice you!”
Then Luna shouted from behind. Then she pulled out an obsidian dagger while wearing an eerie horn mask and began to dance grotesquely, raising and lowering both arms.
I didn’t mind because Luna’s voodoo rituals often included such dancing.
“Heeeeeeek!”
However, Antiope was terrified, as if it were a real cult human sacrifice ritual. Luna also seemed to be pretending to be a cultist on purpose to scare Antiope.
“I swear, I swear! I swear! I swear! I swear! Save me! Save me…!”
It must have been quite effective, because soon Antiope was lying face down on the floor, crying.
“Save me-!”
I feel embarrassed because I feel like we have become such bad people.
Sval, he was the one who attacked us in the first place, sent us to prison, and tried to kill us.
The tears of a beauty are what reverse the causal relationship of sin.
“What have you done to cry? Sacrifice! If you don’t stop, I’ll offer you up as a sacrifice! It’s the voodoo of human sacrifice, human sacrifice!”
But it seemed like it had no effect on Luna, who was also a woman.
Soon, Luna and Paranoy circled around Antiope, who was curled up on the floor, and began to chattering noisily, “Sacrifice! Sacrificial offering!” “We will sacrifice…!”
Luna and Paranoy must have still been angry at being attacked. So they took this opportunity to tease each other to their heart’s content.
“Huhhh… .”
But the effect was so great that Antiope eventually fainted and lost consciousness.
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